Thematic Focus: Solutions

Event: 

Seminar: Solutions and the Global Compact on Refugees - A Long Road "Home," London, 25 February 2020 [info]

Blog posts & media:

"40 US States Agree to Accept Refugees," VOA News, 9 Jan. 2019 [text]

*As Canadians Sponsor Refugees from Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres, Many Australians are Asking Why We Don’t Have Our Own Sponsorship Program? (Asylum Insight, Dec. 2019) [text]

"A Federal Judge Stopped Texas from Ending Its Refugee Program," Vox, 17 Jan. 2020 [text]

*New SSAR Support Platform Refocuses International Attention on Displaced Afghans (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]

Norway to Take 600 Migrants Moved from Libya Camps to Rwanda (InfoMigrants, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Note: This post includes a link to UNHCR info on resettlement for refugees in Rwanda.

Reports & journal articles:

Beyond Work: Reducing Social Isolation for Refugee Women and Other Marginalized Newcomers (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2020) [text]

Delivery of the Humanitarian Settlement Program (Australian National Audit Office, ) [text]

Durable Solutions and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Literature Review, LERRN Paper, no. 2 (Carleton Univ., Dec. 2019) [text]

Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced People (Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan. 2020) [access]
- Follow link for briefing note in English and Ukrainian, as well as a Ukrainian translation of the Framework on Durable Solutions for IDPs.

"Factors Shaping the Lived Experience of Resettlement for Former Refugees in Regional Australia," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 17, no. 2 (Jan. 2020) [open access]

Governing Protracted Displacement: What Access to Solutions for Forcibly Displaced People?, Policy Brief, no. 1 (TRAFIG, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Includes case study of what solutions an IDP within the DRC can access.

The History of Resettlement: Celebrating 25 Years of the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR) (UNHCR, 2019) [text]

"Kinship, Friendship, and Service Provider Social Ties and How They Influence Well-Being among Newly Resettled Refugees," Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 30 Dec. 2019 [open access]
- Focus is on the U.S.

The Long-term Economic Outcomes of Refugee Private Sponsorship (Statistics Canada, Jan. 2020) [text]

Rebuilding Community after Crisis: Striking a New Social Contract for Diverse Societies (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Repatriation of Afghan Refugees from Pakistan: A Legal Analysis," Kardan Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
- This was article was published in two parts, with the first included in vol. 1, no. 2 (2018) and the second in vol. 2, no. 1 (2019).

Report to Congress on Proposed Refugee Admissions for FY 2020 (U.S. Dept. of State, 2019) [text]
- See also related Congressional Research Service Insight.

Social Policy Trends: Refugee Resettlement in Calgary (Univ. of Calgary, Jan. 2020) [text]
- See also related Twitter thread.

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Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Solutions (21 Dec. 2019)

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